‘Just Sustainabilities’ in a World of Global Value Chains
By Stefano Ponte. What if we used our size and resources to make this country and this earth an even better place for all...
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Jan 21, 2021
Innovating Under Pressure – Grassroots’ social and distributed manufacturing during the pandemic
By Isabel Fróes As Bowie almost made a prediction when he sang in his lyrics from 1981: ‘It’s the terror of knowing what this world...
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Jan 12, 2021
How do the arts impact our societies in times of digitalisation?
By Kirsti Reitan Andersen and members of the Artsformation consortium Two decades into the new millennium it is almost impossible to imagine a future in which...
Jan 8, 2021
Can we pay for success in healthcare?
By Mikkel Munksgaard Demographic megatrends, such as ageing populations, challenges public health budgets in developed countries. Currently, health costs in OECD countries are growing...
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Wonder Tech and the Institution of Gender
by Jeremy Moon “I didn’t realize that I was a woman until I went to the US.” This was the rather arresting comment of...
A Taxonomy of Sustainable Business Model Patterns
By Florian Lüdeke-Freund & Sarah Carroux. In recent years, so-called “sustainable business models” are increasingly gaining in importance in both practice and research.[1] There...
Researchers in BLOXHUB seeking to improve indoor climate
by Lara Hale In the second week of May 2018, the architectural and design worlds were abuzz with reviews of the new green glass...
Making it to the World Heritage List: Envisioned and Hidden Effects
By Lotte Thomsen. UNESCO’s World Heritage designation of places around the world has the honorable purpose of taking responsibility. Taking responsibility for the preservation...
Entrepreneurship: The Solution to Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis?
By Thilde Langevang and Katherine V. Gough. Small-scale entrepreneurial activities currently provide livelihoods to a large proportion of the youth population in sub-Saharan Africa...
The Sustainable Development Goals: Elite Pluralism, not Democratic Governance
By Daniel Esser. Was the process leading up to the SDGs really an exercise in global democratic policy making? Although broad consultation efforts shaped...
When Good CSR Intentions With Communities Go Bad
By Rajiv Maher. Can companies get CSR efforts “right” by engaging in dialogue with communities, thus improve relations and their impacts? Reality shows that companies tend...